DeHavilland DHC-2 'Beaver' Seaplane

ZombieDawgs

What's up, it's Sheboygan coming in with a fre$h dosage of a new project.

Since I did an environment last, I wanted to focus on something different this time so I'm making a Seaplane after saying I wanted to half way through my holiday after I saw one. It's a DHC-2 Beaver.

Finals:








High res & wires: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1goe8

Old stuff;




It's all very up in the air at the moment, and looks a bit plane. I'm trying not to wing it so I'm making sure everything's in place before I go into the details, make sure it's done prop-eller-ly.

Kazperstan

Fucking punderful. 

ActionDawg

these puns put me in the hospital, mods please ban

but seriously, looking good so far dude! id focus on getting the connections between the pontoons and body to look solid at the moment.

ZombieDawgs

somedoggy said:

these puns put me in the hospital, mods please ban

but seriously, looking good so far dude! id focus on getting the connections between the pontoons and body to look solid at the moment.

Cheers dood

I've been working on those connections today, they're a surprisingly small piece despite how important they are, tried to make them as beefy as possible.



Also wings.

Voxelus

Cool shapes! 

ZombieDawgs

Voxelus said:

Cool shapes! 

Thank you




Pontoon has had its second pass done on it. 

ZombieDawgs

More progress, got the wings squared off to a level & I've been slowly adding bolts when I want to zone out.

aclund3

Looking super great!  Are you going to bake a lo-poly or stay in high? Rivets as floaters or some other method? Reads really well even at this early stage.  The angles on the structure connecting the pontoons to the main plane body seem a bit too thick to me, but I'm not looking at your ref, so maybe I'm off. Cheers!

ZombieDawgs

aclund3 said:

Looking super great!  Are you going to bake a lo-poly or stay in high? Rivets as floaters or some other method? Reads really well even at this early stage.  The angles on the structure connecting the pontoons to the main plane body seem a bit too thick to me, but I'm not looking at your ref, so maybe I'm off. Cheers!

I'm planning on getting it to the low stage, I just wanted to go a bit overboard with the highpoly details at the moment, the bolts are floaters for the bake. The structural connectors are from a different type of pontoon, you're right. There's like a million different variants of this plane, it's hard to find a good series of images so it's kind of a mismash of a lot of different birds, still hits the mark I want it to however.

And here's the engine put in, I grabbed a 9-Cylinder radial engine CADgrab. It's not the exact model you'd find on a beaver but the difference is negligible for the amount of work I'd need to put in to actually make it.

CybranM

Looks nice but may I ask why you're using orange in the renders instead of gray?
I'm looking forward to seeing this progress

ZombieDawgs

CybranM said:

Looks nice but may I ask why you're using orange in the renders instead of gray?
I'm looking forward to seeing this progress

Just mixes it up a bit, I stare at a greyscale model the entire time I'm making I like to see a bit of colour every now and then in my renders.



Here's where I'm at right now, I have like three more things on the checklist and the highpoly will be complete.

Put me on suicide watch for the lowpoly creation please.


And one of my favourite things to do is turn off the bolts and look at it, it looks like point cloud data.

CybranM

ZombieDawgs said:

Put me on suicide watch for the lowpoly creation please.

I know that feeling.

Are you planning on doing the interior as well or only the exterior?
If not, will you have the windows be opaque mirrors or use some other technique?

ZombieDawgs

CybranM said:

ZombieDawgs said:

Put me on suicide watch for the lowpoly creation please.

I know that feeling.

Are you planning on doing the interior as well or only the exterior?
If not, will you have the windows be opaque mirrors or use some other technique?

Interiors will be done later on down the line. The interior is backfaced properly so it shouldn't be a huge reworking for that. The glass during that period will be opaque until the interior is put in. I'll probably figure that out when I get to it.



Here's the current bake, the engine hasn't even been touched yet lmao.

Currently sitting at 34,612 tris

ZombieDawgs

And there we have it, the lowpoly is done.

ZombieDawgs

Only touched the body so far but I just liked how it looked.

ZombieDawgs

Been texturing/making adjustments and so forth, pontoons still need some closer attention but I was surprised how quickly the materials fell into place for the body.

ZombieDawgs

Still a few things need texturing, but it's slowly taking shape.

ZombieDawgs

Finished up this beaatch.

Arstation with wires & clay renders.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1goe8

ZombieDawgs

model

Got it uploaded to sketchfab for y'all to take a look at.